TheBrownBottle

All of those player purchases during that period still hit the books though - they’re amortised over the length of the contract. And we just don’t sell players, which completely fucks us. edit: as in Pope’s fee will still hit next year’s books. The losses in 21-22 are accounting losses.

The club are playing with a straight bat - so we are where we are. We don’t bring the money in to go crackers in the market. Take 22/23, when we finished 4th. Football clubs will produce their accounts around the end of April. We’re likely to have had an income around £260-280m - which is a massive increase. Spurs - the poorest of the sky six - will likely show a big drop from the year before, but will still likely post £440-470m. The current season will have gains from Sela and the CL groups - but also we’re likely to finish lower (PL placings are worth c.£2.5m per place). Say CL revenues of £40m (incl gates) and Sela is worth £20m - but we finish 7th. We’re likely looking at income of £300-320m this year - again, we’ll be over £100m behind the sixth-richest club. We just can’t spend what they spend. Next season will likely have no CL football - so while the adidas deal is worth c.£40m, that won’t actually mean revenues increase next year. We’re miles away from being able to spend megabucks. If FFP and FMV remain in place, we’re basically at our likely ceiling. (Though there is a lot of commercials which are left on the table at present - not great. And of course a new stadium would help smash FFP)

I’m being facetious mate, sorry - though I would be very surprised if there is much more than the supposed Phillips loan fee available (c.£8m)

I loved those kit designs when I was a kid. I remember feeling sort of disappointed when we signed with adidas and the kits weren’t adidas-style kits. They were the grandfather-collar kits. I wasn’t a style guru when I was 12 …

I think we’ll be struggling with £4m

We won’t have £40m in FFP wriggle-room. The club isn’t keeping its powder dry

Yeah, something along those lines. If any European football is happening add £10m-ish. Plus sales.

Yeah, I think you’re spot on tbh. I doubt there’s very much wriggle-room FFP-wise, and loads of players are due to come back from injury.

I don’t think it is an option in terms of colour blindness, though. The clubs used to wear away colours in the derbies when I was a kid. I thought it was difficult to watch - and even Miley seemed to get confused at one point

It would have to have a £££ value in the clause, otherwise what’s to stop Barca bidding £1 and triggering the clause?

I could potentially live with it if their husbands can check and amend their votes before they’re cast

If the club becomes successful a lot of people are going to have to get used to it - this woman will end up being representative of the majority of the support. Im going to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she was prepared for questions coming her way online, and if she’s a representative then perhaps that’s to be expected. It would be unpleasant to see her constantly having to fend off personal attacks from dickheads, though.

They’ll be wanting the vote next, too

You’d think having journalism’s most punchable face would be enough, and the inaccuracy would simply be back-up

Yes, of course I noticed. Which is why I said that without Trippier’s clanger we’re looking forward to a SF. It’s hardly Dummett’s fault. Dummett gave us the option of a centre half good enough to keep a clean sheet against a solid Man City side. But you’d rather advocate for playing a nameless kid more than likely nowhere near his quality. We’re not likely to be able to shed all of these players just yet - FFP will continue to tie our hands next season. Dummett is a perfectly solid back up option for the defence, isn’t on huge money, and is an academy graduate. Given this season’s injury crisis, it doesn’t seem like the smartest strategy to start pushing players out with no obvious replacements.

Bang average academy lad sees us lose that LC tie vs Man City. Trippier doesn’t drop a clanger and we’ve got a SF coming up.

Dummett isn’t an academy equivalent player, no matter how many try to insult the lad with the suggestion. He’s played over 100 PL and did nothing wrong in games he’s played this season. If there was some bright young defender in the academy, are we really thinking Howe would ignore him?

Or perhaps they should follow the ‘Blueprint for the Future of Football’ and reduce the PL to 18 teams as originally planned. Four games fewer immediately - and you can leave the cups alone. NB The League Cup is run by the Football League, and remains a big income for teams further down the pyramid, as well as actual trophy to be won. As exciting as it is not knowing whether you’ll finish 5th or 8th, an actual trophy would be a lot more meaningful.

Haranguing the woman on social media isn’t on at all - even if the arrogance of thinking you could are the person to represent international fans of NUFC with that supporter’s CV is breathtaking. I admire the club’s ability to give a voice to the … voiced. CEOs, lawyers, local politicians, etc etc. They’re not exactly the average punter. It doesn’t matter, because ultimately anyone who thinks a club genuinely listens is fooling only themself. But the optics aren’t great.

Thomas Frank is a whining cunt. ‘Why do they have replays, too many games’. Because there have been replays since the tournament began - a tournament which is literally the same age as Germany. The ridiculousness of a fucking Brentford manager whining about having to play replays against lower league opposition. For about 95% of Brentford’s history an FA Cup replay against a big team would keep the club ticking over.

The questions and mild criticisms remain for me.

Dummett being an academy product means that he’ll probably be kept if we’re in Europe (and he’s not as old as he sometimes seems) as much as anything. Agreed re Krafth.

Rugby, cricket, racing cars … it’s all sounding a bit ‘Newcastle United Sporting Club’ …

No, the CL revenue would have already been sank in the summer. We knew we were in the group stage. Getting knocked out means no more revenue - even staying in the UEFA Cup would have potentially meant millions more coming in. You don’t need to wait until it has come in - FFP is in the football financial year.

I’m expecting Manquillo and Hendrick to be gone. I think Dummett will get another year, Krafth will if the club has confidence in his fitness, and Ritchie might if he’s a player / coach and on a vastly reduced wage